Mount Union College
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{{Infobox_University |name=Mount Union College |image=Image:Mountunion.JPG |established=1846 |type=Private school|Private |affliation=United Methodist Church |president=Richard F. Giese |city=Alliance|Alliance |state=Ohio|OH |country=United States|USA |undergrad=2,300 |campus=Suburban |colors=Purple and White |website=www.muc.edu |}}
Mount Union College is a 4-year private, liberal arts college in Alliance, Ohio.
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History and profile
Mount Union was founded in 1846 by Orville Nelson Hartshorn as "a place where men and women could be educated with equal opportunity, science would parallel the humanities and there would be no distinction due to race, color or sex." Admission to the College has always been predicated on academic excellence and promise.
Seventy-seven percent of the faculty at Mount Union have earned a doctoral or terminal degree with graduate training at universities in the United States and Europe.
Mount Union College enrolls 2,300 undergraduates; approximately 52 percent women and 48 percent men, representing more than 20 states and 15 countries. Mount Union has an active alumni base of more than 13,000 graduates located around the world.
Mount Union is proud of its religious heritage and its background in the Methodist Church. For more than a century the College has been officially connected with the Methodist Church. It is now affiliated with the East Ohio, West Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Conferences of the United Methodist Church.
Mount Union has been ranked for 14 consecutive years as a top regional liberal arts college in the Midwest and is also ranked as a Best Buy for regional liberal arts colleges in the Midwest.
Notable faculty of Mount Union
Dr. Richard F. Giese, the 11th president of Mount Union, is a native of Chicago, Illinois. Giese earned his B.A. degree in English literature from Concordia College in 1971. He later earned his M.Div. from Concordia Seminary in 1976 and his M.A. degree from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. He earned his doctoral degree in college and university administration from Kent State University in 1986.
Dr. Truman Turnquist, a native of Kipling, Saskatchewan, is interim vice president of academic affairs and dean of Mount Union. He earned his bachelor of art's degree in chemistry from Bethel College and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.
Lee Ann Thorn, chair of the Board of Trustees, is the executive vice president and treasurer of GBS Corp. of North Canton, Ohio. She is a 1983 graduate of the College.
Mount Union sports facts
With school colors of purple and white, Mount Union competes in the Ohio Athletic Conference and in NCAA Division III athletics. The teams are nicknamed Purple Raiders, and the school's mascot is MUCaw, a purple parrot.
Mount Union sponsors 11 men's varsity teams: baseball, basketball, cross-country, football, golf, indoor track, outdoor track, soccer, swimming, tennis and wrestling. The school also sponsors 10 women's varsity teams: basketball, cross-country, golf, indoor track, outdoor track, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis and volleyball.
By far the best-known sports program at Mount Union is football, which has won a record eight Division III national championships, all since 1993. They also jointly hold the all-division record for consecutive victories at 55, ended in their loss to St. John's (Minn.) in the 2003 national championship game. The Purple Raiders also won 110 consecutive regular-season games between 1994 and 2005.
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